Even as the motor carrier industry and its customers get accustomed to the government’s new safety measurement system -—Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) — the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is making certain improvements to the program. The most important revisions …
With all the attention to complying with OSHA regulations, it’s easy for employers to lose sight of a very significant statistic – six times as many work days are lost due to off-the-job injuries as on-the-job injuries. What’s more, less …
Attorney Mark Shaye, who has extensive experience representing clients in health and safety matters, presents four case studies to examine preventability of accidents. Read the full article.
Employers can keep productivity and profits high through off-work safety initiatives, writes Mike Taubitz, Senior Advisor to FDRsafety. Read the full article.
A recent report from Purdue University and a new hazard alert from OSHA point up the wide range of safety threats to workers if adequate precautions are not taken when working in grain handling. The Purdue report says that 26 …
I’ve asked Marc Shaye, an attorney with more than 30 years experience in health and safety matters, to be a guest blogger this week. Here’s Marc’s take on why it takes more than doing the minimum to achieve a safe …
Parents spend endless hours worrying about the safety of their children – doing everything from “baby-proofing” the house for a toddler to giving stern lectures to new teen drivers. But recent research published in the “Journal of Adolescent Health” and …
Petzl America is recalling approximately 375,000 shock-absorbing lanyards that it has sold since 2002 because of a problem that could cause a lanyard to separate from a climbing harness, posing a fall hazard. The Scorpio and Absorbica lanyards are missing …
As former Chief Safety Officer of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, I led the design and implementation of CSA — the federal government’s new program to measure the safety performance of motor carriers, including truck and bus operators. From …
If you were to look at past accident reports for your company, would you find that most recommended corrective actions target “employee behavior”? Certainly, employee behavior is part of the overall picture but it is only one piece of the …